December 4, 2020

Team Announcements

DCS VIRTUAL CALMING ROOM

Need a brain break? Need a place to virtually chillax and zone out for a few minutes? Take a moment to check out the DCS Virtual Calming Room. You will find live animal cameras, online coloring books, and visual relaxation videos, to name a few.

RLA Social Lunch Group
Are you a member of the Remote Learning Academy at Karrer or Grizzell and feel you are missing out on interacting with peers? If so, join our RLA Social Group! This group will be led by Mrs. Honeycutt, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Hemmerich, and allow for students to interact and participate in various activities.

• WHO: RLA Students

• WHAT: Social Group with Mrs. Honeycutt, Miss Taylor & Mrs. Hemmerich

• WHEN: Every Monday @ 11:00am

• WHERE: Google Meet (linked here)

Difficult Times?
If your family is experiencing hardship, please see this flyer with information about support available within the Dublin community.

Have Questions?
Visit the Resources page on this Site. There's a LOT of information there to help you will all kinds of things!

Continuing Topics and Meet Codes

• • Cooking Enthusiasts & Foodies - friday funday cooking

  • Crafters! friday funday crafting

  • Coding Enthusiasts - friday funday coding

New Topics

• • Kids with Wonders (friday funday wonders) - Kids bring cool stuff they have found or questions/wonders they have.

  • Kids Just Chillin' Out (friday funday chill) - Kids just come to talk to other kids. This group won't be connected to any specific topic.

  • Parlor Games (friday funday games. These are non-video games) - Kids gather for group "parlor" games such as Scattegories, Pictionary, Person-Place-Animal-Thing, The Category Game...

Building-Specific Announcements

• Grizzell

• Karrer

Language Arts

Ms. Jones

This week students tallied Writer's Notebook Entires to see what they are writing about the most. This is to help them decide what subject they might like to select for their next narrative. We studied a model narrative writing taken from the Introduction in the book A Maze Me by Naomi Shihab Nye. This narrative talks about being 12 and not wanting to grow up. It demonstrates to students how the author used a Writer's Notebook to capture memories as well as process her thinking about difficult questions and situations. Ask your student HOW he/she wants to be as a grown up. We had some insightful conversation as we worked to answer this question together.

Mrs. Spenthoff

This past week, we finished our shared reading, The Adventures of Ulysses. Many great discussions, connections, literary elements and critical thinking came about from this text! Our last quiz over the last section of chapters ("Scylla and Charybdis" through "The Return") will take place on Monday, December 7.

Starting December 8, we will transition into our writing focus; continuing to work on our fictional narrative, using our shared read as a model. This will provide students with some guidelines (plot elements, organization, etc.) while also allowing them to be creative!

Science

Ms. Luetje

Our study of topography and watersheds has led us to talk about the human impact on our water. The whole seventh grade at Karrer, both RLA and Hybrid, are spending the week talking about environmental issues facing our world, especially those relating to water pollution. We started by looking at the situation in Flint, Michigan. Students are learning about the issue, what caused it, and how people are using music and art to inspire others and share hope. Students will be exploring other situations around the globe, and we'll end the week by talking about the impact plastics have on our oceans. Students will be selecting an artistic expression of their choice (poster, digital collage, comic strip, poem/rap) to reflect on their own impact, and to help inspire others to act - reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse, reimagine, repair.

Mrs. Massey

We have been learning about water pollution and watersheds. We learned that our watershed drains to North Fork Indian Run, then to the Scioto River. We learned about where our drinking water comes from, and that it is part of the Big Walnut Creek Watershed. We have done a virtual field trip around the waterways of Dublin and looked at local Dublin watershed maps. We have begun looking at what pollution can affect these watersheds, looking at real data from our area! Next week, we will look at international locations of major pollution, and discuss why plastic has been in the news so much lately. Students will research ways they can help our local watershed and look at how businesses in Dublin are working towards cleaner healthier water! Did you know our Dublin library has a rain garden? We can all do something to protect our waterways!

Social Studies

Mr. Dunham

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Miss Ziesenheim

Two weeks until another whirlwind break! This week, we learned more about the rise of the Roman Republic - digging into the power dynamics among the citizens of Rome. Students have been flexing their creative muscles to depict the two different social groups of ancient Rome, the patricians and the plebeians, and how their power dynamic shifted over time. Next week, we'll compare the Republic to US Democracy and consider how democratic the Republic actually was.

Math

Mr. Gorgias

We will continue our work analyzing and creating equations this week.

Mrs. Yang

Click the link to view my daily agenda. Mrs. Yang - Math 7 Daily Agenda

Mrs. Bailey

To see what's happening in Algebra, click HERE to view the daily agenda.

Mrs. Neader

Click HERE to visit Mrs. Neader's class site.

Related Arts

Mrs. Brown, Art

Students are finishing their dream bedroom drawings which are due on Monday, December 7th. Next week will be the second-to-last week of art! Students will have a little more opportunity to explore various creative projects, as well as incorporating photography!

Ms. Cover, Art

This week in art we are starting our last unit “What’s My Story” This will be a narrative work of art and the students can choose to create this artwork 2-D or 3-D.

Students are exploring Narrative Art: Visual art that tells a story. The viewer needs only to look at the artwork and “read” the image. The students are exploring a variety of artists and how they tell stories through their artwork. They all will create artwork based on “What's My Story”.

Ms. Thornton, Music

This week, we have been working on music theory which is the study of how to read music and all the elements of reading music. We learned some things as a group, but students also got to spend some time working independently on topics that interest them.

Next week, we will work on The Grand Staff and where to find the notes on the keyboard. Students will then have the opportunity to practice piano music and collaborate and play duets using chrome music lab!

Ms. Reyes, Music

This week in music we explored Soundtrap, a digital audio workspace. Soundtrap empowers students to create their own compositions by editing and producing sounds in a real time collaborative audio platform. They have created some outstanding projects and really enjoyed exploring this wonderful learning tool! Next week we will continue to work in Soundtrap to create a group project as a class and have a special guest visit on Thursday and Friday to explore the Tuskegee Airmen and USO music during WWII.

Mrs. Harper, Cog Ed

This week we began our unit on Tiny Houses! Students began by choosing a location for their home and thought about how living tiny could help a global issue in that country. Next, we will begin to design and virtually construct our tiny houses!